Relationships between pathologic subjective halitosis, olfactory reference syndrome, and social anxiety in young Japanese women

Table 3 Relationship between pathologic subjective halitosis and preoccupations with body part odors

N	Pathologic subjective halitosis ^a			P value ^b
	Normal	Moderate	Severe
	732	575	33
Mouth odor (○)	337 (46)^c ^▽	361 (63)^▲	25 (76)^▲	<0.001
Mouth odor (−)	395 (54)^▲	214 (37)^▽	8 (24)^▽	<0.001
Body odor (○)	359 (49)^▽	341 (59)^▲	24 (73)^▲	<0.001
Body odor (−)	373 (51)^▲	234 (41)^▽	9 (27)^▽	<0.001
Armpit odor (○)	261 (36)^▽	251 (44)^▲	17 (52)	0.005
Armpit odor (−)	471 (64)^▲	324 (56)^▽	16 (48)	0.005
Foot odor (○)	204 (28)^▽	204 (35)^▲	11 (33)	0.013
Foot odor (−)	528 (72)^▲	371 (65)^▽	22 (67)	0.013

^a Participants were divided based on results from the pathologic subjective halitosis scale: the normal group included scores of 10–13; the moderate groups included scores of 14–21; the severe group included scores of 22 and over [20]
^b Chi-squared test
^c Number (%) of people
^▽ Residual analysis was used to indicate fewer incidences than the expected value in the same column in the same group of pathological subjective halitosis scores
^▲ Residual analysis was used to indicate more incidences than the expected value in the same column in the same group of pathological subjective halitosis scores

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